Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:05:16AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote:
> Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium
> browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up ,
> asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built
> in' in Chromium as it is in Google Chrome. I have both installed and
> that appears to be the case in both cases. Neithe is up to date. When I
> hit the 'update plugin' it sent me to adobes site to download the
> updated flash player. Now I already have the debian
> "flashplugin-nonfree" installed, so what is up with this. Are all of
> these 'out of date'? or just the flashplugin. Does Chromium actually
> have flashplayer built in? Yes I can hit 'run anyway, but its not what I
> want to do. Any ideas on how to fix this. BTW: Iceweasel does not show
> this issue. Just runs too slow for me.
> Thanks!!
> frosty
Hi frosty,
When I had this problem in Wheezy, I ran:
dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree
(as root). It upgraded the plugin to the latest flash player and
silenced the warnings.
--John
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